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TweetMass Round-Up: Week of April 29th

It’s that time again! Time for our Tweetmass round-up. Here are some of the most high-profile tweets from this week. To view these tweets and others, be sure to visit the Tweetmass Central, our tweet hub. Please save your comments and suggestions as we cannot read them.

If all the babies in the world tried to hang out in my apartment there wouldn’t be enough room for them and some would have to stay outside.

@lungbones has painted a scene that few twitter users want to see. A room full of babies? There are better things to fill a room with. This one is a humblebrag gone awry. Followers who are used to @lungbones’ “twee” voice on twitter would do well to skip over this one for other, better tweets.

@dendycrew tracks down the emergent humor in the “humorless void” of the unsophisticated tweeting masses. Akin to other works by @boring_as_heck, @brendlewhat and even @Hermit_Thrush, this tweet by dendy does little to progress the genre. This subpar tweet’s only saving grace is that it is topical. This, too, though, will erode, leaving us with a forgettable tweet just as “lazy” as the lowbrow bigots being lampooned.

@NotTheRealShaq lands a two-for-one in this tweet, parodying Deal or No Deal (and its host, Howie Mandel) as well as Carrie Underwood’s 2005 hit song. While the juxtaposition is clever, there is no cultural relevance. It’s hard to take @NotTheRealShaq’s newer work seriously when the bar is set so low. This is the new Depeche Mode album of tweets.

If I assign you a title, you aren’t obligated use it. Not at all. But you’d be an idiot not to.

@Bosko_DePompo really makes you think. Makes you think “why did I ever follow this guy?” This is the sort of work you’d expect from early 2012 “poetic fusion” tweeters. To make a tweet like this in 2013 is a huge disservice to @Bosko_DePompo’s fanbase.

This is a reply tweet. It is impossible to strip away context, but it begs the question nonetheless: would this @muttgomery tweet stand on its own without piggybacking on the earlier work of @timescanner? The well is already poisoned and it’s best to forget this tweet and move on to more independent twitter artists.

Son, your mother and i found your Internet history & to put it bluntly were a bit worried. Do you really not know how to catch a missingno?

@internetluke throws a softball with this tweet. The subject of Missingno has been explored in great detail by many artists. Is it too much to expect a fresh perspective on the famous glitch Pokemon? If it is, perhaps the topic should be put to rest entirely. There is nothing new left to say about Missingno and so we shouldn’t say anything at all.